1329 8 6
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The drop is like a hangman's drop, an executioner's, but farther and longer, perhaps three or four seconds.
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1329159
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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.
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132953
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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.
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132911
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A hinge in my heart is broken.
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132862
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Your brother is not really blind.
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132844
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The last chick in the nest
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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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132854
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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132898
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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1328125
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Monday will come soon enough to get/
what needs to be done, done.
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132854
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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132890
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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
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132855
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It's been a bad year, People dying. Some too close to home, Some too far away. I cry down to you, In your casket, and think you might sit up. You were not sick You went in just a moment, Looking stunning and alive. Not…
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132864
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She stiffens and blusters and roars
Not like a storm,
Not like a lion.
Like a badger, caught in the steel jaws of a trap.
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132887
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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132855
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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132811
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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th
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Osama couldn’t see any reason he shouldn’t retire. No way he could top BP Oil in the Gulf or Pacific Gas & Electric in San Bruno.
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1327105
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an engine stalls out
in the parking lot
the driver
tears her skirt
coming through the door
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132731
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Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.
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1327115
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The spectacle of weather/
on the prairies approaches.
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132710
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the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.
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132711
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You think there’s a chance the bag could be holding a severed head, or live or dead kittens.
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132732
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sometimes it's hard/ to leave the house in the morning/ when bed is so comfortable/ and you're so far away.
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132765
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His shirts he hangs on the back of the chair, one on top the other so they won't wrinkle.
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132700
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I was sleeping in a pile of teenage bodies soft limb spread over soft thin limb.
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132732
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Artie Shaw gave Ava Gardner a reading list in preparation for their honeymoon that included The Brothers Karamazov, The Origin of the Species, Das Kapital and The Magic Mountain.
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132700
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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields /
Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/
Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/
Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/
scheduled breathing poses
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132732
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Mother told me that I would go to the moon. But she did not tell me that on Diwali night, the moon hid himself on the other side of the sky.
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Mom stayed up all night again Tending to her papers Pushing them around Trying to make order of the debts, the dreams and the obligations She couldn't get the columns to add up, So she shuffled them around some more and Rearranged the piles …
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